What strikes me these days is that all the things that the crazy-far left menaced, every time I thought something was less than ideal but to be accepted as the bill of low unemployment, minimum wages and state responsbility, they’ve all been delivered. No, they would never lock people up for no reason. They wouldn’t…
Read More What could they do? They did it allOK, so our last fit seemed to have got results. The MOD had, it seemed, finally found the cash to give the RAF’s C130s the explosion suppressant foam in the fuel tanks that the Americans and Australians fitted 40 years ago, after the loss of XV179 on election day in Iraq and an unprecedented campaign…
Read More Foam Party: We’re Going to Lashkar GharOperation Firedump has been quiet for a while, but here is some news. The Equatorial Guinea aircraft registry, 3C-, has been cancelled en masse in an effort to clean up. EG’s registry has been a pustular swamp for years, and this is a fine opportunity to flip some stones over. Air Bas and Irbis used…
Read More Where the billows a-breaking..Marginal Revolution says: In Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations, David Warsh notes in passing a bizarrely ironic use of markets by the Soviet KGB. It is 1984: The Cold War is entering its climatic phase. There are war fears at the highest levels of government. In London, KGB agents have been directed to track…
Read More Market, market, market…whoopsMore than two years ago now, I poured scorn on the Grauniad for running ads for an evidently fraudulent anti-allergy gadget whilst also running Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science column. A taste: Which is all very good news for little “James”, the emetic blond child whose likeness takes up one of those two pages with the…
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